by Alex Garland · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140288940
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«The Beach» is Alex Garland's adventure novel, published by Penguin in paperback (448 pages, in English).
Richard, a young backpacker in Southeast Asia, receives in Bangkok the map of a secret beach that travellers consider a communal paradise. Together with a French couple, he crosses the Thai jungle to find it, but the community that inhabits it imposes its own rules and the supposed Eden soon shows its darker side.
The Beach was published in January 2000 as a tie-in edition to the Twentieth Century Fox film; the novel won the Betty Trask Award in 1997.
For readers of contemporary adventure and thrillers, especially those who enjoy backpacker stories and exotic settings.
Alexander Medawar Garland is an English author and filmmaker. He rose to prominence with his novel The Beach (1996). He received praise for writing the Danny Boyle films 28 Days Later (2002) and its sequel, 28 Years Later (2025), and Sunshine (2007), as well as Never Let Me Go (2010) and Dredd (2012). In video games, he co-wrote Enslaved: Odyssey to the West (2010) and was a story supervisor on DmC: Devil May Cry (2013).
